String Theory Explained | Cumrun Vafa

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Published on July 8, 2019 3:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEvQDzkOLgU

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From the string landscape to parallel universes, Harvard String Theorist Cumrun Vafa explains string theory's predictions and what this means for the possibility of a multiverse.

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Talk of other universes has become fashionable amongst physicists and is popular with the public. But the numbers seem hardly credible: string theory predicts 10500 parallel universes and some argue that the very idea of other universes is nonsensical. Should we recognise ours as the only universe and give up on others as fantasy science? Or is slipping through a worm hole into another universe a credible reality rather than a Hollywood fairytale?

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Cumrun Vafa: Cumrun Vafa is a string theorist from Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

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